Published by Kristy Locklin of NextPittsburgh | Read the article
Last March 16, when the restaurant industry came to a halt due to Covid, Jennifer Flanagan got moving.
The executive director of Community Kitchen Pittsburgh (CKP), a nonprofit culinary training center located at 107 Flowers Ave. in Hazelwood, mobilized her team to help people in need.
Since that day, with funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and individual donors, the organization has dished out more than 400,000 meals for charities, schools and elderly care centers and has teamed up with local businesses to ride out the storm.